quizzity

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Noun

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quizzity (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Oddity; eccentricity.
    • 1811, The Scourge; or Monthly expositor, of imposture and folly, page 460:
      [] his height and proportion mighty slender, and well enough by nature, but fidgeted and noddled into an appearance not over prepossessing; nor are his sharp features and very sharp little eyes a whit behind them in quizzity.
    • Quoted in: 1994, Francis Horner, Kenneth Bourne, William Banks Taylor, The Horner Papers (page 62)
      Let me add, John Leydon whom (in spite of his quizzity and several other qualities that are philosophically speaking no faults) the more I know, the more I admire.